Crotchety old man Roger Daltrey says hip-hop hasn’t evolved

"It’s kind of meaningless to me, to be honest with you"

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The Who were one of those bands that helped redefine music in the ’60s and ’70s, but that was fifty years ago. Just because they’re rock icons doesn’t mean they’re overly in touch with the sounds of today, as frontman Roger Daltrey recently made painfully clear with his opinions on hip-hop.

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Daltrey was asked what he thought about Kanye West. Saying he only encountered West’s music after he performed at a British music festival, the singer remarked, “It’s kind of meaningless to me, to be honest with you. I like some of the rhythms of rap. But [it] hasn’t gone anywhere from the first record [that] ever came out with those kind of rhythms, has it?”

In other words, he thinks “Rapper’s Delight” is essentially the same thing as, say, Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA.”.